Their eventual onslaught could include our being bogged down in at least two other places (ie. Mid East and Korea), their own new technology weapons (ie. space based or supervacitating systems), parity or near parity in other areas (ie. SU-30, Sovremenny DDG's, Subs, Carriers), asymetrical warfare (ie. terror/sleeper cells inside America), etc.
And they have engineered the economic conditions to allow us to help fund a major part of it.
If we are not careful, it will lead to something akin to:
THE DRAGON'S FURY SERIES
A Techno-thriller series about America and World War III
To try and give a warning of potential conditions like this as regards the PRC is the one of the principle reasons the series has been written...hoping that couched in an exciting and engrossing read, the information might get folks to thinking.